Ethics in Social Networking and Business 2: The Future and Changing Paradigms [Hardcover]

This book, the second of two volumes dedicated to ethics in social networking and business, presents the future and changing paradigms related to ethics, and morality in our interconnected society.

This volume analyzes advanced topics, including new technologies, transhumanism and uberization, to provide a more complex, shared and collective environment into why business ethics is essential for managing risks and uncertainties.

The Ethics in Social Networking and Business series is the result of a cross-integration of real experiences (from IBM, society and the Rotary Club), transdisciplinary works in decision making, and advances at the boundaries of several scientific fields.

Foreword xiii

List of Acronyms xvii

Introduction xxi

Chapter 1 Evolution and Impact of Advanced Technologies on Humankind and Business 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Evolution of technologies 2

1.2.1 A challenge 5

1.3 The United Nations: concerns and recommendations 7

1.4 Evolution of production systems 10

1.4.1 Question: Innovation and usefulness 11

1.4.2 Question: Anticipation 12

1.4.3 Toward personification 13

1.5 Emergence of nanotechnologies 16

1.5.1 Characteristics of nanotechnologies 16

1.5.2 A paradigm change 17

1.5.3 Perspectives, prospective and comments 19

1.5.4 Questions of ethics: a new way of thinking 20

1.6 Development of biotechnologies 21

1.7 3D printing and the future of manufacturing 23

1.7.1 Impacts of innovation 23

1.7.2 Some applications of 3D printing 24

1.7.3 Basic questions of ethi